I wonder why last year was so short of entries? All other years had roughly 60 entries!

Don't know the others, I wanted to enter last year, but I was completely blocked, staring at the screen without ideas...

This year, I posted the games I wanted to make... and someone picked part of my games, making better versions than what I was programming at the time. (4bideen fruit, I'm looking at you ) The other ideas, I didn't finish them because they didn't get many feedback, and were more prototypes than games.

In the end, this year has amazing games, many of them will become 4k classics as my all time favorite Miners4K.

42 programmers is an impressive number in itself, and even more when you think at its meaning revealed in Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything !

But what amazes me the most, is the number of games submitted by some participants, and all of them proving that quantity is not always the enemy of quality. So I can count 2 entries for Andy Cook, Mark Bernard, Markus Persson, rdcarvallo and soothsayer, 3 for Kevin Glass, 4 for MÃ¥ns Olson, 6 for SimonH and 8 for zero.one ! ( sorry if I have forgotten anyone or any game... )

I just hope that all of these people are making the fortune of the game industry in their professional activities ( I know for sure for one or two of them... ), otherwise it is really too bad for it !

I agree. I was annoyed to have to have spent so much time dealing with compressors. I just wanted to write my game.

Also, judging these games is nuts! There are so many, I've still got like 50+ left. Maybe my reviews are too long. I'm having fun so far, but there are almost no games I can simply write 3 sentences on, everyone has done so well!

Also, judging these games is nuts! There are so many, I've still got like 50+ left. Maybe my reviews are too long. I'm having fun so far, but there are almost no games I can simply write 3 sentences on, everyone has done so well!

Keep up the great judging! Especially as my game is the last on the list! Personally, I wouldn't mind if the judges got more then 2 weeks to judge, as that works out to be about 5 games to play and review every day!

Keep up the great judging! Especially as my game is the last on the list! Personally, I wouldn't mind if the judges got more then 2 weeks to judge, as that works out to be about 5 games to play and review every day!

Yeah, which is probably too much, and is at least more than I've been able to get to so far. I'm going to try to play catchup but if I can't then I'll likely see if Appel will extend the deadline. Otherwise the last few I review will much shorter.

And I've already played yours (and really liked it) but haven't written a review yet. I'm mostly going in sequential order but I've been occasionally breaking that order to review more interesting ones or my favorites (like L4D I already reviewed).

I have a feeling the judges will need longer time, this is heavy work. I wanted to see how the work progressed before putting down a deadline longer than 2 weeks, but now I realize two weeks are insufficient time. I'll notify the judges this week, no reason to make them think they have longer time just yet

Possibly something to think about for next year would be to give each judge a list of the order to use, either individually shuffled or shuffled once and then rotated so that they start at points equally spaced. It's more hassle for the judges, which I realise is a downside, but the upside is the marking should average out to be more consistent.

Another suggestion for next year: Once the game is finished, show either the full list or none of the 2009 games on the front page; the effect has been somewhat less prominent this year, but last year, the games that were on the front page on the end of the compo were roughly the most downloaded ones.

Another suggestion for next year: Once the game is finished, show either the full list or none of the 2009 games on the front page; the effect has been somewhat less prominent this year, but last year, the games that were on the front page on the end of the compo were roughly the most downloaded ones.

When I went to the page yesterday it was showing random games from 2009 rather than the most recent ones.

Another suggestion for next year: Once the game is finished, show either the full list or none of the 2009 games on the front page; the effect has been somewhat less prominent this year, but last year, the games that were on the front page on the end of the compo were roughly the most downloaded ones.

I have already changed the front page of the site. I did it within a few days after the contest closed. Now random games from the 2009 contest are displayed. Maybe the last submitted games received slightly more time on the front page, but in any case this does not affect the judging.

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